Journal
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 191-200Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-011-0301-y
Keywords
Electrospray ionization; Supercharging; Protein complex; Anthrax toxin; Concanavalin A; Traveling wave ion mobility; Native mass spectrometry; Charge enhancement
Funding
- National Institutes of Health [T32GM008295, T32GM066698, R01-AI077703, R01GM096097]
- UCSF Sandler-Moore Mass Spectrometry Core Facility (N.I.H.) [1S10RR029446-01]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [840505] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Chemistry [840505] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The effects of aqueous solution supercharging on the solution- and gas-phase structures of two protein complexes were investigated using traveling-wave ion mobility-mass spectrometry (TWIMS-MS). Low initial concentrations of m-nitrobenzyl alcohol (m-NBA) in the electrospray ionization (ESI) solution can effectively increase the charge of concanavalin A dimers and tetramers, but at higher m-NBA concentrations, the increases in charge are accompanied by solution-phase dissociation of the dimers and up to a similar to 22% increase in the collision cross section (CCS) of the tetramers. With just 0.8% m-NBA added to the ESI solution of a similar to 630 kDa anthrax toxin octamer complex, the average charge is increased by only similar to 4% compared with the native complex, but it is sufficiently destabilized so that extensive gas-phase fragmentation occurs in the relatively high pressure regions of the TWIMS device. Anthrax toxin complexes exist in either a prechannel or a transmembrane channel state. With m-NBA, the prechannel state of the complex has the same CCS/charge ratio in the gas phase as the transmembrane channel state of the same complex formed without m-NBA, yet undergoes extensive dissociation, indicating that destabilization from supercharging occurs in the ESI droplet prior to ion formation and is not a result of Coulombic destabilization in the gas phase as a result of higher charging. These results demonstrate that the supercharging of large protein complexes is the result of conformational changes induced by the reagents in the ESI droplets, where enrichment of the supercharging reagent during droplet evaporation occurs.
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